So you want to "migrate" a small website with images and subpages, but you don't have FTP access. Well here is a simple one-line solution for your problem. How to download all files from a website with wget? Check it out.

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Few days ago, I had to migrate a mysql database to another server. I did full dump, but forgot to migrate the users. Everything was working fine from command line, but the phpMyAdmin showed me: "No tables found in database". I figured out, how phpMyAdmin reads the tables from a database:

show table status from MyTableName

This was the point, where I started to understand what was going on.

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If you want to upgrade your system via portmaster -a, you can get these outputs:

===>>> Launching child to update p5-libwww-5.837 to p5-libwww-6.02_1
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 ...

An infinite loop of dependencies for p5-libwww. How to make a non-dirty workaround.

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So we know the basics from the How to handle heavy web traffic on FreeBSD (part 1.), and it's time to go further. The basics are essencial but usually not enough for a production environment. We need more. Let's see what else could we do to improve the speed and decrease the loads. But this is not only related to the web traffic.

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The question often comes up: What should I do, if my server has a heavy traffic and it rejects the connection. For example the web servers (nginx, apache) throw white page, but the server load is quite low. There are no error logs at all and you don't know what to do. FreeBSD out of the box is not configured for heavy traffic. It's time to fine-tuning your server. Let's see what you should do.

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